Bufnagle: the Podcast

Bufnagle

Join us for an entertaining and enlightening discussion of eclectic adventures in the pursuit of all things Good. Gain a better understanding of technology and science, history and philosophy, and leadership and success, all presented in a positive and affirming conversational framework. Big Brain SmartHead™ guests occasionally join the pair to bring actual expert knowledge to the conversation. 

  1. 1d ago

    Ep 299: "It's not me; it's you." — Breaking Up and Declaring Independence, 250 Years Ago

    Rafe reviews the USA's foundational document: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, the fledgling nation's statement justifying the USA's dissolution of political bands with Great Britain. Along the way, we will discuss structure and nature of this document, what is says and what it means, why these things were (and still are) important, and what it means today. #bufnagle #declarationofindependence #semiquincentennial #LawsofNature #LawsofNature'sGod #self-evidenttruths #lifelibertyhappiness #consentofthegoverned #rightsandduties #hyperbole #freeandindependentstates #livesfortunesacredhonor #treason #patriots #loyalists #quebec #canada #articlesofconfederation #articleeleven #virtue #moralformation  ***** As always, you can reach the Buf at bufnagle@bufnagle.com ***** As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagle On this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

    49 min

  2. Jun 23

    Ep 298: The Miracles of Blood, Nurses, and Life Itself

    Rafe discusses all things surrounding donating blood.  This episode has it all: from understanding your blood and what is in it, to how it moves around your body, to the history of blood donation, to how it is carried out at present, to how wonderful nurses are, to how all this demonstrates the power of human touch. #bufnagle #blood #erythrocytes #leukocytes #thrombocytes #plasma #redcross #williamharvey #richardlower #karllandsteiner #transfusion #bloodtypes #apharesis #nursing #myelofibrosis #anesthesia #dyingwell #thepowerofhumantouch  ***** As always, you can reach the Buf at bufnagle@bufnagle.com ***** As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagle On this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

    42 min

  3. Jun 16

    Ep 297: Adam, Eve, Batman, and The Joker — The Fall of Mankind

    Rafe finally gets around to tackling the third chapter of Genesis, the story of Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden. The serpent is a dastardly character, using his cunning to trip up the child-like and unassuming Eve and Adam.  They get tricked by his chicanery and violate one of God's first assignments: they eat the forbidden fruit. While Adam's and Eve's sins are understandable and relatable (the nature of how they fall into sin is all too familiar to us, even today), the serpent tricking them is far less comprehensible.  What the serpent does to our first parents is not "good for food" or "pleasing to the eye" or "desirable for gaining wisdom"; it is only an act to bring destruction to the pinnacle of God's creation.  Like Joker in the Batman film "The Dark Knight", we find that the serpent in Genesis 3 "just wants to watch the world burn".   #bufnagle #adam #eve #fallofman #genesis3 #forbiddenfruit #treeoflife #treeofknowledgeofgoodandevil #satan #God #eden #sin #nakedness #redemption #expulsionfromthegarden #batman #joker #brucewayne #alfred #darkknight #watchtheworldburn #evilisasevildoes ***** As always, you can reach the Buf at bufnagle@bufnagle.com ***** As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagle On this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

    30 min

  4. Jun 9

    Ep 296: Restoring an Abundance of Love — An Inspiring Conversation with BBSH Roland Warren

    Rafe sits down for a conversation with Big Brain Smart Head™ Roland Warren, president and CEO of Care Net, to discuss healing the culture.  In a world filled with material abundance, more people than ever are suffering and despairing, the widows and orphans are being left behind, and we are mired in a culture that produces anything but flourishing.   With Father's Day just around the corner, Roland touches on a lifetime of ministry and experience to describe a style of ministering that focuses on rebuilding the family: father, mother, and child — the cornerstone of thriving and flourishing cultures. Directed by Love and using the Holy Family as a model, Roland steers troubled souls to return to a place where men serve women, women serve men, and both serve children, thereby allowing children to grow up seeing aspirational models of men and women in their own homes and then reflecting the resulting Christian love outward to their neighborhoods, cultures, countries, and the world. #bufnagle #rolandwarren #carenet #holyfamily #widowsandorphans #love #rolemodels #familyfoundations #abundantlife #benotafraid #fathersday ***** As always, you can reach the Buf at bufnagle@bufnagle.com ***** As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagle On this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

    45 min

  5. Jun 2

    Ep 295: How Good Is The Metric System?

    In this redrop of a classic episode from nearly four years ago, Rafe and Harry tackle the question of "Why is the US so  reluctant to embrace the metric system?" To answer this question, they go back to the basics of where the metric system comes from ("There were five definitions of the meter???"), where Imperial units come from ("The Romans did what???"), and how things got to be how they are in the US ("So this is a history class???").   Join the fun to find out why the US struggles so much to fully implement metric and why that answer turns out to be the Land Ordinance of 1785. #metricsystem #imperialunits #arbitraryunits #frenchrevolution #romans #landordinanceof1785 #bufnagle ***** As always, you can reach the Buf at bufnagle@bufnagle.com ***** As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagle On this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

    42 min

  6. May 26

    Ep 294: Angiosperms, Parrots, Good, and Evil

    Rafe is fully enjoying the arrival of summer, in particular all the plants producing flowers and leaves and, soon, fruit.  What follows is a discussion of angiosperms (plants that produce flowers and seeds enclosed in fruit) and their wondrously rich variety, which leads to a discussion of the 1981 film Time Bandits in which the Evil One mocks God for producing "43 species of parrots" when he could have been focusing on lasers and high tech. In the end, we learn that Goodness blossoms and expands to higher and higher amounts of diversity while Evil, the absence of Good, decays and devolves into nothingness, represented in the film as smoldering blackish grayish ashy rock. #angiosperms #bufnagle #parrots #greenplants #asters #orchids #grasses #leaves #fruit #agriculture #timebandits #goodandevil #God #supremebeing #evilone #satan #kevin #mostfabulousobjectintheworld #fortressofultimatedarkness #infinitudeofthevarietyofthegood #seanconnery ***** As always, you can reach the Buf at bufnagle@bufnagle.com ***** As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagle On this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

    37 min

  7. May 19

    Ep 293: Good and Very Good — Weddings Reveal Your Duties As Imago Dei

    With Summer looming, so are summer things like weddings!  In this re-drop of a classic Buf episode from way back in 2023, Rafe, heroically fighting a cold, talks of a wedding he attended in Iowa and the lessons that were learned, most importantly how children and grandchildren are the greatest blessings one can receive and how they fulfill our duty as Imago Dei. #bufnagle #weddings #imagodei #iowa #children #grandchildren #blessings #creationstory #goodthings #verygoodthings #genesis ***** As always, you can reach the Buf at bufnagle@bufnagle.com ***** As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagle On this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

    31 min

  8. May 12

    Ep 292: Belief, Conviction, and Action — How to Build a Grand Basilica

    Rafe discusses thoughts around some snarky twitter posts, some cultural issues plaguing us, lament for old times, the understanding that one cannot go back, the situation with Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, Heinrich Heine, the definitions of belief and conviction, modernist Man's terrible predicament, and what to convict yourself of in order to do your part to turn things around. #bufnagle #paris #notredame #snarkycaptions #barbarians #ruinsofagreatcivilization #lossofdirection #badfood #dressinglikeslobs #vapidyouth #LOL #noisymusic #disturbingart #uglyarchitecture #emojis #corruption #problemsofthepast #antonigaudi #sagardafamilia #spanishcivilwar ##heinrichheine #burningbooks #opinions #convistions #imagodei #greatcivilizations #whatdoyoubelieve #truth #beauty #goodness ***** As always, you can reach the Buf at bufnagle@bufnagle.com ***** As you know, this is an independent podcast so your hosts also carry all the expenses of running this podcast.  As such, some of you have asked how you can help out.  Well, here's the answer: support us on Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/bufnagle On this page, you can do a really nice thing like send us a couple dollars to help cover the cost of recording and hosting and microphones and research and all that.  Any little bit really helps!  Thank you in advance!!!

    23 min
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Join us for an entertaining and enlightening discussion of eclectic adventures in the pursuit of all things Good. Gain a better understanding of technology and science, history and philosophy, and leadership and success, all presented in a positive and affirming conversational framework. Big Brain SmartHead™ guests occasionally join the pair to bring actual expert knowledge to the conversation. 

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  • Creator
    Bufnagle
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    302
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Bufnagle: the Podcast
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